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Ritual & Practice

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Autism and God

Tom Fields-Mey­er is the author of Fol­low­ing Ezra, a mem­oir about learn­ing from his autis­tic son. He will be blog­ging all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Tom Fields-Mey­er
November 7, 2011
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Judaism in Bio­log­i­cal Per­spec­tive: Bib­li­cal Lore and Juda­ic Practices
Rick Goldberg, ed.
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A Jew­ish Cal­en­dar of Fes­tive Foods
Jane Portnoy; Robin Reike, illus.; Marshall Portnoy, commentary
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Jew­ish Days: A Book of Jew­ish Life and Cul­ture Around the Year
Francine Klagsbrun; Mark Podwal, illus.
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Mean­ing & Mit­vah: Dai­ly Prac­tices for Reclaim­ing Judaism Through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew,Mitzvot and Peoplehood
Goldie Mil­gram
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Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jew­ish Les­bians and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Tradition
Rebecca Alpert
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A Guide to Jew­ish Reli­gious Practice
Isaac Klein
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Jew­ish Liv­ing: A Guide to Con­tem­po­rary Reform Prac­tice, Revised
Mark Washofsky
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To Life!: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish Being and Thinking
Harold S. Kushner
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A Trea­sury of Sephardic Laws and Cus­toms: The Rit­u­al Prac­tices of Syr­i­an, Moroc­can, Judeo-Span­ish and Span­ish and Por­tuguese Jews of North America
Herbert C. Dobrinsky
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A Wild Faith: Jew­ish Ways into Wilder­ness, Wilder­ness Ways into Judaism
Rabbi Mike Comins
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Liv­ing a Jew­ish Life: Jew­ish Tra­di­tions, Cus­toms, and Val­ues for Today’s Fam­i­lies: Revised and Updated
Anita Diamant with Howard Cooper
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How to Run a Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Household
Blu Greenberg
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Jew­ish Hol­i­days: A Brief Intro­duc­tion for Christians
Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Daniel Judson
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The New Jew­ish Wed­ding, Revised
Ani­ta Diamant
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Tough Ques­tions Jews Ask: A Young Adults Guide to Build­ing a Jew­ish Life
Rabbi Edward Feinstein
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